Lost Patrol, The
Platform: Amiga 500
Region: Europe
Media: Floppy
Controller: Mouse
Genre: Strategy - Top Down - Historical
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1990
Developer: Shadow Development
Publisher: Ocean Software Ltd.
Players: 1 Player
Licensed from: Ian Harling
Hardware: OCS
Conversions: Atari-ST, PC (DOS)
Disks: 2
Programmer: Chris Wilson, Kraftwaerk, Nick Tuckett (Nick Byron), Simon Cooke
Musician: Chris Glaister
Designer: Ian Harling
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You and your squad are on their way back from R&R in Saigon to your operations base when Viet Cong guerillas force your helicopter to crash land in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. It's now your responsibility to lead the remaining survivors to the nearest U.S. base, evading or facing an elusive and dangerous enemy on his own grounds.

Most of the time, you'll see a map of the country on the screen and navigate your men through the country. It's important to watch your men's health and morale by getting them food, water, ammo and letting them rest, etc. When reaching certain spots on the map, e.g. a native village, the game presents the current situation in a nice graphic scene. Sometimes you'll run into V.C. snipers, patrols, whole ambushes or encounter minefields. Then the game offers some small arcade sequences like firing your guns or fighting it out in desperate hand-to-hand combat. The progress of your party is accompanied by video sequences from the Vietnam War.
 
http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/lost-patrol

1] Released as PAL and NTSC versions.

[2] A pre-release version exists with some differences to the final release:
- the time bar at the top of the screen is white in the pre-release and green in the final version
- the menu has an Extras option in the final release
- there are gameplay changes and some extra scenes in the final release

[3] Visit the Lost Patrol Webshrine: http://thelostpatrol.knagge.com/

http://hol.abime.net/924
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CHEATS:


Regain strength and moral:

Rest the squad for ten minutes to restore two strength
points and add two points to moral without using any food. Repeat
this procedure to increase your squad's statistics to 99 percent.
